6th Grade Earth Sciences Resources (by date, oldest first)

Dive into the dynamic world of meteorology with the FREEBIE “The Fury of Nature: Understanding Hurricanes” reading passage, Q & A, and Note-Taking Sheets!  This educational resource offers a captivating reading passage that explores the science, impact, and fascinating facts about hurricanes.  Accompanied by a comprehensive set of questions and answers, it provides a thorough framework for assessing student understanding and encouraging critical thinking. The note-taking sheets are designed to help students organize information effectively and develop strong study habits.  Ideal for middle to high school students, this freebie is an invaluable addition to any science curriculum or classroom library.

This bundle includes a detailed 2-week lesson plan, a structured 2-week scope and sequence, and a PowerPoint presentation on hurricanes. Ideal for middle and high school educators, it covers hurricane formation, impact, safety measures, and scientific significance.

In this lesson, students learn about the Solar System as they complete a WebQuest (Internet Scavenger Hunt) to answer questions about the topic. A complete answer key is provided for the WebQuest for easy grading, along with resources for both teachers and students. The student questions are included in both a print version and a digital (editable) version to make it easy for students to complete the lesson digitally or on paper. Additionally, a word search puzzle with answer key is included, perfect for early finishers or to use as a part of the lesson.

This activity is perfect for a science or technology class. This lesson was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in upper elementary as well. This is also a great lesson to leave for a substitute teacher!

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files included:

• Teacher & Student Resources

• Learning about the Solar System WebQuest Activity (print and

editable digital files included)

• Learning about the Solar System WebQuest Answer Key

• Word Search Puzzle with Answer Key

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Are you searching for a unique and engaging way to teach kids about the water cycle? Our Water Cycle Flexagon Craft offers a dynamic and hands-on approach to learning this essential environmental process. This printable flexagon activity allows children to cut, print, and fold their own flexagon, a fun, interactive tool that visually demonstrates the stages of the water cycle—evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. By manipulating the flexagon, kids can explore how water moves through its continuous cycle in a creative and memorable way.

Perfect for science lessons, environmental education, homeschooling, or at-home learning, this flexagon craft makes understanding the water cycle both enjoyable and interactive. Kids will love the tactile experience of crafting and using their flexagon, enhancing their grasp of how water circulates through the environment.

What’s Included in the Water Cycle Flexagon Pack:

• Printable Flexagon Templates: Detailed templates for each stage of the water cycle, ready to print and assemble.
• Instructional Guide: Easy-to-follow instructions for cutting, folding, and constructing the flexagon.
• Illustrative Graphics: Visuals for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection stages to aid understanding.
• Educational Content: Brief descriptions of each water cycle stage included on the flexagon.

Dive into the dynamic process of the water cycle with our Water Cycle Flexagon Craft, and let your kids discover the continuous journey of water through a creative and interactive activity!

IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Child Development and Play Activities." Through this resource, parents will gain practical insights into how different types of play contribute to their child's overall development. The information sheet provides simple and engaging ideas for fostering cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth through play. By incorporating these activities, young learners can develop essential skills while enjoying the fun and creativity that play brings to their everyday lives.

These science vocabulary tiles are a fun way for students to manipulate content and show off their learning! Set of tiles comes with a mixture of vocabulary and other words for students to build their own rocks and minerals themed "poetry."

What is Included?

• 29 prompts and questions to get students started
• 255 vocabulary and filler words
• Blank template to write in new/needed words

Vocabulary included supports NGSS MS-ESS2-1

Wild weather! Teach about what people do to prepare for storms, hurricanes, and wild winter weather! (Safety and emergency preparation). Includes: Crossword Puzzle and Word Search Puzzle (that reinforces vocabulary words used in the Crossword).

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Topics explored: weather | storms | storm | weather preparations | autumn | fall | winter

Two fall gravity word puzzles and Sir Isaac Newton introduction: Things That Fall Puzzle page, which explores the concept of gravity through a fun word search and “secret code” fill-in puzzle.

SAVE – Buy our Getting Ready in the Fall for Winter Puzzle Pack for extra puzzles and resources!

Vocabulary Words Included:

acorns apples comets empires grades hail Humpty Dumpty leaves London Bridge meteors night olives parachutes peaches pears pecans people rain snowflakes stars sweat tears temperatures water balloons

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Contains 50 Vocabulary Definitions with Example Sentences, Graphics, Video links for each concept and student notes pages.

Power Point and Google Slides

Notes in Google Slides and PDF

Use as an introduction to each topic or as a word of the day/bell ringer for science.

Includes 4.5 pages of reading with diagrams and a video.

31 Self Grading Questions

For Grade 6-8 Science (Heat)

No prep or Marking.

Looking for a worksheet for students to complete while watching the documentary "Kiss the Ground"? This is perfect for sub plans and days where student do not have devices, like the end of the year! It features 18 short answers questions and the key. Directions on how to get the movie for free for teachers are also included!

Movie info: "Kiss the Ground" is a documentary that explores the importance of healthy soil for the planet. The film explains how modern agricultural practices have led to soil degradation and environmental issues such as climate change. Most students know very little about the soil even though they interact with it directly or indirectly every day. This activity is perfect for Earth Day or sub plans if your sub has access to the computer (or your favorite partner teacher can set it up for them!)

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
• MS-LS2-5: Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• MS-ESS3-1: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.

TN State Standards

• 6.LS2.6: Research the ways in which an ecosystem has changed over time in response to changes in physical conditions, population balances, human interactions, and natural catastrophes.
• 6.LS4.1: Explain how changes in biodiversity would impact ecosystem stability and natural resources.

Unlock the mysteries of ocean currents with a unique and engaging classroom lesson that brings science to life! This lesson uses adorable rubber ducks to illustrate how ocean currents function and impact the planet. Great for visual and kinesthetic learners.

Looking for a inquiry based investigation ready to go lesson for teaching ocean currents? This activity includes...

• Google slides to go through with students.
• Student handout link
• Tips in the Speaker notes on the Slides
• Exit ticket to assess learning
• Rubber ducks!

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.ESS2.1 - Gather evidence to justify that oceanic convection currents are caused by the sun’s transfer of heat energy and differences in salt concentration leading to global water movement. 

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-ESS2-6 - Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

Very fun and interactive activity for students learning about ocean currents and density.

Includes....

• Student packet with all the information for the students to complete
• Rubric for student AND teacher

This project is great for the end of the year. That weird time between end of course tests and the school year end is challenging. The project is mostly self-paced and great for those days that you only see some classes throughout the day. Minimum materials are needed! 11x7 paper, lined, paper, the packet, and yarn!

Student will make a map, complete a packet, and write some journal entries on how they would survive if they were stranded on a deserted island.

This product is only the student packet. You will need the teacher slides for the chance cards. Purchase the BUNDLE to get both.

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.PS3.1 - Analyze the properties and compare the sources of kinetic, elastic potential, gravitational potential, electric potential, chemical, and thermal energy.
• 6.LS2.4 - Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems
• 6.ESS2.5 - Analyze and interpret data from weather conditions, weather maps, satellites, and radar to predict probable local weather patterns and conditions.
• 6.ESS3.2 - Investigate and compare existing and developing technologies that will utilize renewable and alternative energy sources.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem
• MS-PS1-4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
• MS-ESS2-5: Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.

Looking for a ready to go made lesson for ocean density and salinity? This activity include:

• slides presentation to present to students.
• lab/demonstration directions for students and teachers
• handout for student lab worksheet

Great for homeschool or school setting! Videos are included!

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.PS3.4 - Conduct an investigation to demonstrate the way that heat (thermal energy) moves among objects through radiation, conduction, or convection.
• 6.ESS2.1 - Gather evidence to justify that oceanic convection currents are caused by the sun’s transfer of heat energy and differences in salt concentration leading to global water movement.
• 6.ESS2.3 - Construct an explanation for how atmospheric flow, geographic features, and ocean currents affect the climate of a region through heat transfer.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-ESS2-6 - Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

Includes....

• Google slides to go through with students
• Chance cards to print out
• Pacing guide
• Teacher and student tips

This project is great for the end of the year. That weird time between end of course tests and the school year end is challenging. The project is mostly self-paced and great for those days that you only see some classes throughout the day. Minimum materials are needed! 11x7 paper, lined, paper, the packet, and yarn!

Student will make a map, complete a packet, and write some journal entries on how they would survive if they were stranded on a deserted island.

This product is only the slides. You will need the bundle to do this project.

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.PS3.1 - Analyze the properties and compare the sources of kinetic, elastic potential, gravitational potential, electric potential, chemical, and thermal energy.
• 6.LS2.4 - Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems
• 6.ESS2.5 - Analyze and interpret data from weather conditions, weather maps, satellites, and radar to predict probable local weather patterns and conditions.
• 6.ESS3.2 - Investigate and compare existing and developing technologies that will utilize renewable and alternative energy sources.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem
• MS-PS1-4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
• MS-ESS2-5: Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.

Looking for a end of the year self-paced lesson for students to work on during those weird schedule days after testing? This lesson uses critical and creative thinking to create a story about surviving on a deserted island using what they have learned in science! It includes....

• All directions for students and teachers
• Google slides to go through with students
• Chance cards to print out
• Pacing guide
• Teacher and student tips
• Student packet with all the information they need
• Rubric for student AND teacher

This project is great for the end of the year. That weird time between end of course tests and the school year end is challenging. The project is mostly self-paced and great for those days that you only see some classes throughout the day.

Minimum materials are needed!

• 11x7 paper
• lined
• paper
• the packet
• yarn

Student will make a map, complete a packet, and write some journal entries on how they would survive if they were stranded on a deserted island.

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.PS3.1 - Analyze the properties and compare the sources of kinetic, elastic potential, gravitational potential, electric potential, chemical, and thermal energy.
• 6.LS2.4 - Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems
• 6.ESS2.5 - Analyze and interpret data from weather conditions, weather maps, satellites, and radar to predict probable local weather patterns and conditions.
• 6.ESS3.2 - Investigate and compare existing and developing technologies that will utilize renewable and alternative energy sources.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem
• MS-PS1-4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
• MS-ESS2-5: Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.

This is your all-inclusive package to teach air and flight to your grade 6 immersion students

• 30 page student ‘Carnet’

• 2 original comprehension pieces with questions

• Tableau S-V-A

• Group research + presentations on the atmosphere

• Paper airplane experiment

• Bernoulli experiment 

• Step-by-step research project with rubric, self-assessment, goal setting, independent revision guide, paragraph and subject development and creation of a poster.

• 24 slides

• Content

• Visually engaging explanations

• Complicated concepts and terms made simple.

• Guided and prompted. Easily teach with virtually ZERO prep or understanding!

• Jokes and puns to meet your 6th graders’ weird humor!

• Topics covered:

• Bernoulli’s principle

• Aerodynamics

• 4 forces of flight

• Properties of air

• Air pressure

• Atmospheric pressure

• Atmosphere layers (‘Troposphere’ comprehension piece)

• History of human flight (‘Ornithoptères’ comprehension piece)

I created this document for completeness. It contains everything you need to easily and effectively teach this unit. It contains all content (over 75 pages) and over 30 pages of engaging activities, projects, comprehension pieces, computational research, group work, discussions and reflection questions.

Whether you're new to teaching, aren't comfortable teaching science, or are simply tired of planning, this document is for YOU!

I cover so much in this resource:

• The biosphere;
• Biodiversity;
• Species, classes and categories;
• Kingdoms/reigns, hierarchies and taxonomy;
• A basic look at cells (animal, plant, eukaryotic, prokaryotic);
• A basic look at photosynthesis;
• Threatened/endangered species;
• Carnivores, herbivores and omnivores;
• Producers, consumers and decomposers;
• Habitats and ecosystems;
• Food chains.

Also included: a student notebook that follows the slides; with opportunities for students to answer questions, complete SVA (K-W-L) charts, complete activities, research, doodle/color. Here are some activities in their 'notebook':

• Taxonomic practice (x 6)
• Mini-search for a species of their choice with taxonomic map.
• Paper mosaic - endangered animals (art project)
• Listening notes, comprehension questions, probing questions.
• Reigns mini-search + comparison table.
• Mini-research on an endangered animal.

Answer keys/answer keys are given when a specific answer is requested!

For goodness sakes, don't forget to have fun!

Mme. Kaitlyn.

Ignite middle schoolers' curiosity with our inquiry-based project on imports, exports, energy, and electricity. Cross-curricular and transdisciplinary, it fosters critical thinking through reading, writing, and research. Transform learning with a dynamic, comprehensive experience!

Take a look at the preview to see first-hand what you can expect in this mega-resource that was a labour of love for me!

This 146-page unit will provide you with content, activities, projects, rubrics, simulations and discussion prompts necessary to engage your students for upwards of 2 months in a series of learnings, research and projects which will ultimately have them creating solutions for real world problems relating to food waste, energy sources, importing and exporting and the choices we make relative to our consumption.

Following a cross-curricular approach, I include step-by-step details, thorough lesson plans that will have you and your students deeply exploring some big concepts, connecting subjects, digging deeper, and thinking critically about sustainability and the future of our planet.

Within this mega-resource, you'll find two parts:

• A 57-page teaching guide including a brief overview of the unit, the outcomes you'll be covering, detailed and thorough lesson plans for each day, all assignments, graphic organizers, stations, debates, simulations, answer keys, and rubrics. Many additional projects are recommended and explained for each of the major sections in addition to the lesson plans I provide. It includes printables for all games and activities, research, projects, and success criteria.

• I also guide you on using the second part to this resource:

• A 91-slide teaching document which includes all content, vocabulary, games and concepts relating to:

• Food waste in Canada and the effects on the economy and the environment:

• Perishability of food items.

• A close look at expiries and "best before" dates.

• A quick game on perishability.

• Recommended film and videos.

• Importing and exporting in Canada and its impacts on the economy and the environment:

• Connection between food waste and imports.

• The importance of shopping locally.

• A trivia game on natural resources which are either imported or exported and a breakdown of the destinations of each.

• A segway into imported and exported energy sources - and why we export some of our energies out-of-country and overseas.

• Energy sources in Canada and its impacts on the economy and the environment:

• Why do Canadians export their energy?

• The good, the bad, and the ugly of energy consumption and our abuse with overconsumption.

• The laws and transformations of energy.

• An in-depth look at the different forms of energy, where the energy comes from and how they're used.

• An in-depth look into renewable energy sources.

• An in-depth look into our planet's atmospheric layers, our ozone layer, and the different characteristics of each.

• A look into protests and laws that protect our environment - and a call to action.

Interested in testing out an inquiry- and project-based approach, but don't know where to start? Here are some suggestions for you!

• Dragon's Den - Dans l'oeil du dragon!
• Mon espèce en voie de disparition
• Space Food!

For goodness sakes, don't forget to have fun!

Kaitlyn.

Cette ressource contient tout ce dont vous et vos étudiants avez besoin pour effectuer efficacement des recherches, prendre des notes, créer une infographie et organiser et exécuter des présentations orales. Il comprend même un projet artistique sur la création d'une mosaïque d'une espèce en voie de disparition.

Il est complet avec tous les critères de réussite et rubriques, les auto-évaluations et les organisateurs graphiques pour les aider à rester sur la bonne voie. Deux compréhensions écrites sont également incluses!

Si vous enseignez en ligne ou prévoyez d'utiliser cette ressource en ligne, il existe des versions modifiables et imprimables de chaque organisateur graphique ainsi que le modèle d'infographie afin qu'ils puissent être facilement complétés sur Google Classroom ou Teams.

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J'ai créé un paquet avec chaque élément dont vous avez besoin pour enseigner la science en 6e année à vos élèves en immersion. Chaque unité est complet avec du contenu, des activités, des jeux, des documents, des projets intégrés et des recherches très attrayants. Ils peuvent facilement être laissés à un suppléant et ont été créés à l'origine pour que mes élèves travaillent de manière indépendante afin que je puisse travailler avec de petits groupes.

* Des centaines * de pages de contenu vous feront économiser d'innombrables heures de préparation, de création et de recherche. Vous économiserez également de l'argent en les achetant en lot!

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Prenez soin les uns des autres et AMUSEZ-VOUS!

♡ Mme. Kaitlyn